- SpaceWeather.com has posted a gallery of beautiful shots of Comet McNaught in action, including this otherworldly pic from the Haleakala High Altitude Observatory. [Via]
- Joe Lencioni has posted a nice shot of the Leonids meteor shower (now joined by a second shot).
- Joe Reifer has posted in-depth info on shooting with a Canon 5D & a wide angle lens, used to produce this image. [For more from him, see previous.]
- I really enjoy the painterly quality of New York Blue, from photographer Bill Travis. [Sidenote: It’s amazing how different the same image looks in Safari vs. Firefox on my system, due to FF not (as far as I know) honoring color profiles. Would it kill the browser makers to implement color management? Of course, Adobe needs to do the same in the Flash Player.]
There are also over twelve-hundred photos of McNaught on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mcnaught/
[Nice! –J.]
color difference is not due to the image profile? I think in Bill’s image it is AdobeRGB although for web browser it should be sRGB, isn’t it?
[It’s off because Safari is honoring the profile & Firefox isn’t. The reason images “should” be sRGB for the Web is to account for browsers not paying attention to color profiles. In other words, dumb everything down for safety. That shouldn’t be necessary; browsers should honor the image-maker’s intent. –J.]